Presented by: Professor Orit Peleg, Department of Physics and Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder 2:30 p.m. Abstract: Imagine a world where communication doesn't depend on words, but on ...

A Cambridge-led project seeks funds to digitize and restore 100,000 hours of historic scientific recordings featuring leading ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

A Cambridge-led project seeks funds to digitize and restore 100,000 hours of historic scientific recordings featuring leading ...

The UC Davis department of physics and astronomy, together with the College of Letters and Science, will host a free reception and public lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 4 from 6 ...

The lectures, entitled “A Unified View of the Universe,” begin at 7 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The lecture will also be Web cast on ...

This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...

Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez gave her Last Lecture on May 14 to an auditorium filled with Bruins, her former students and fellow faculty. Thousands of Bruins voted for Ghez – who was one of 260 faculty ...

There is nothing more tedious than yet another boring lecture. Derek Raine describes how students at one university are learning their core physics without traditional lectures. End of the lecture?

In 1998 two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that suggests that more than 70% of the cosmos is ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...